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WOYEN WIRE MATTRESS. No. 419,950.

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- UNITED STATES arena OFFICE.

CHARLES E. HINKLE AND EZRA RANSOM, OF FLINT, MICHIGAN.

WOVEN-WIRE MATTRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 419,950, dated January 21, 1890.

Application filed May 6, 1889. $erial No. 809,755. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES E. HTNKLE and EZRA RANsoM, citizens of the United States, residing at Flint, in the county of Genesee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVoven-VVire Mattresses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in mattresses made with woven wire 'or other woven fabrics.

On account of the different standards of width adopted by the manufacturers of bedsteads the manufacturers of mattresses are compelled to make assorted sizes of mattresses, and the dealers are obliged to keep them in stock, as the buyers naturally insist upon having the mattress fit the particular width of their bedsteads. To do away with this complication of sizes, we have invented a construction of mattress especially adapted for woven-wire and other fabrics, which permits of being adjusted to threediiferent sizes of Width, as required for the three standard sizes generally adopted, all as more fully hereinafter described, and shown in the accompa nying drawings, in Wl1lCll- Figure 1 is a plan of a woven-wire mattress fully extended inwidth. Fig. 2 is an end View partly extended only. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one corner as extended. Fig. 4 is a detached side elevation of the folding cornerbracket, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section 011 line X X in Fig. 4.

A'are the side rails of the frame. B are the head-blocks secured thereto, and C is the Woven-wire fabric of a woven-wire mattress as ordinarily constructed, or of any other known construction, except as hereinafter described.

The fabric C is wider than the frame, and is secured thereto to project beyond both side rails, and a folding bracket D is secured to each corner to support the projecting portion of the wire fabric. To this end the folding brackets are preferably constructed as shown in the drawings, in which a is a plate adapted to be secured to the head-blocks at the cornor by cutting away a portion of the strip E, which secures the woven wire to the frame.-

On the upper corner of this plate is formed a knuckle b, to which the folding bracket is hinged free to extend outwardly or to be folded against the side of the frame. A hinged brace c is arranged to hold the bracket adj ustably in position, preferably by being hinged at d to the plate a and engaging with its free end into a notch or recess 6, formed in the under side of the bracket.

To secure the projecting ends of the wire fabric to the bracket, I provide the same with a clamping-plate f, adapted to be secured, by riveting or otherwise, to the bracket, with the wire clamped between. To hold the wire fabric very firmly, the adjoining faces of the bracket and clampingplate are preferably corrugated, as shown, with a slot 9 in the bracket to still further increase the hold. The parts being thus constructed, as shown and described, it will be seen that a mattress of this construction really represents three sizes, one with both projecting sides folded down, the medium size with one side only extended, and the largest size with both sides extended, and as generally only three sizes are adopted by the trade, differing from each other only by about two inches, it will be seen that the same mattress will do for all sizes.

The same construction, as described, applies to the manufacture of mattresses for single beds as well as for double beds, there be ing the same differences in width.

IVhile We have more specifically described our invention in connection with woven-wire mattresses, for which it is most especially designed and adapted, we do not intend to limit ourselves thereto, as it is evident that mattresses having canvas or other fabric instead of the usual wire fabric may be constructed in the same adjustable manner. We also do not intend to confine ourselves to the peculiar construction of the bracket; but

What we claim as our invent-ion is-- 1. As an improved article of manufacture,

a mattress having the fabric projecting beyond one or both sides of the frame, supports for said fabric, as the pivoted brackets D, connected to said frame and constructed to be folded against the same, and having the proj eeting port-ion of the fabric secured thereto, whereby said fabric may be folded downward or extended horizontally, substantially fabric secured thereto and provided with the as described. clamping-plates f and adj ustin g-braces a, sub- 2. In a mattress, the combination of the stantially as described. 15 frame, the fabric secured thereto and having In testimony whereof We affix our signa- 5 projections beyond the sides of the frame, tures, in presence of two Witnesses, this 1st the hinged corner-brackets to which said proday of April, 1889. jections are secured, and the braces support- 5 ing the brackets, substantially as described. 3. In a mattress, the combination of the scframe, the fabric secured thereto and having Witnesses:

projections beyond the sides of the frame, A. B. EATON, and the hinged corner-brackets having the J. PAUL MAYER. 

